This ought to be a great event for Opera Software fans. The company has announced it will be demoing and displaying many of its software products throughout the event. What will be the biggest hit for Opera? For the first time Opera Software will allow video recording and photography of Opera Mini for iPhone. An initial iPhone version was first debuted during February’s Mobile World Congress Conference.

Web users are finding their news in a manner that may not be considered a “traditional” way of Web news navigation. In February Hitwise published a report which found that Facebook beat out Google News in sending visits to top news and media Web sites. It was the fourth largest source of visits behind only Google, Yahoo, and MSN (still ahead of Yahoo Search and Bing). A recent follow up report shows that Facebook news getters are more loyal to news and media Web sites than are visitors from Google News.

Google has been a roll lately. First with the addition of Google Bike Maps; then their new features for Google Buzz; and just yesterday Google introduced some changes to Google Earth.  The newly updated layout for Google Earth is expected to make navigation much easier. Making it easier to navigate is great for everyone, from the guy in his office burning off the last 20 minutes on a Friday to a family who legitimately is using it to plan out this summer’s vacation.

For over 50 years Communication Arts has been publishing the best in visual communications from across the globe. To date it is the largest creative magazine in the world in highlighting graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography and interactive design. Entries after the March 26th deadline will be accepted for an additional fee, with the final cutoff to be April 9th. Each year Communication Arts has six competitions that include all aspects of visual communications.

Google has announced a Google Buzz widget for Android. The new widget works with Android running 1.6+, when before Buzz Mobile worked only with Android 2.0+. Google Buzz Mobile was released in Feburary, and has a bunch of great features including integration with Google Maps to show Buzz around your area (or the area of your choice).

The ZERO sounds like a cool piece of technology. Not only will it save you a couple bucks each month, but it will also reduce wasted electricity. The real question is how does it work? The ZERO works by automatically sensing when a mobile phone is not plugged in to the charger. Once the charger recognizes that there isn’t a device receiving power, it cuts all power supply from the wall socket. 

Earlier this month we made a few changes to improve user experience. These included more browsing options, streamlined browsing, and integration with Facebook. Now we are proud to announce the addition of categories to the Amvona Blog. Below the title of each article you will see its category. Just give that a click, and whamo you’ll see all of the articles for that category. We hope that this will navigating the blog easier. The categories include:

HTC wrote a press release (finally) addressing the HTC/Apple legal battle. The news surfaced earlier this month, and has since taken a back seat to other happenings including SXSW 2010 lineup and multitasking on iPhone OS 4.0. Yesterday HTC outlined their disagreement with Apple’s legal actions and reaffirmed their commitment to the smartphone industry.

Do phone chargers that are left plugged in really waste that much electricity? The answer is yes. Today’s press release that introduces AT&T’s energy efficient ZERO charger sites that the electricity wasted by chargers that aren’t being used could power 24,000 homes for a year or brew three to four million cups of coffee each day. The ZERO will cut the power supply when a phone is not plugged in, which will intern cut a few bucks out of your energy bill and reduce electricity usage. Now it’s no solar powered charger, but it does have the potential to save a lot of energy.

Video content continues to be a driving force of online activity. YouTube is synonymous with online video, and even in the running for being named one of the 25 biggest contributors to the World Wide Web. So it may come as no surprise that as demand for online videos grow, so has the sheer volume of videos being uploaded to the video community. YouTube has announced a great milestone in online video; every 60 seconds one full day of video is uploaded. That's a daily total of almost four years worth of video being added to the site.

The Web has had many important players over the past 25 years. Attempting to form a list is hard, but somebody had to do it. That someone was 25yearsof.com. They’ve selected 75 honorees, of which 25 will be selected as the “.com 25” to be honored at a 25yearsof.com award ceremony in May. Voting has begun, and requires users to sign up. No surprise the list is stacked with many big names. So far the honorees with the most user votes include:

Yesterday Microsoft announced the release of their Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9. This is part of Microsoft’s claim to being user (and developer) friendly with their products. The main group Microsoft is going after with this preview are the developers. The kicker? IE 9 won’t run on Windows XP. This could be a great move in getting users to upgrade to Windows 7. IE 9 is putting many of its eggs in the HTML5 basket, which isn’t a bad thing. Microsoft’s plan is to make updates to IE 9 roughly every two months.

Coming from humble beginnings to what it is now the internet has grown immensely. Twenty-five years ago this week is when the first company registered a .com Web address extension. The lucky first was Symbolics Inc., A computer manufacturer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with symbolics.com. Today .com is forever ingrained in the minds of almost every consumer across the globe.

Yesterday Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced a new addition to Twitter that goes far beyond the twitter.com domain. The feature dubbed “@anywhere” was announced at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Event. SXSW 2010 is being held in Austin, Texas, and lasts for ten days (March 12-21). The event combines music, film, and interactive. SXSW has been running for over twenty years. 

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